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174.I gave tbem but their due . ] Our Author always found those he commended
less fenfible than those he reproved . The reason is plain . He gave the latter but
their due ; and the other thought they had no more . - VER . 180. -a Persian tale .
174.I gave tbem but their due . ] Our Author always found those he commended
less fenfible than those he reproved . The reason is plain . He gave the latter but
their due ; and the other thought they had no more . - VER . 180. -a Persian tale .
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In them , as certain to be lov'd as seen , The Soul stood forth , nor kept a thought
within ; In me what spots ( for spots I have ) appear , 55 Will prove at least the
Medium must be clear . In this impartial glass , my Muse intends Fair to expose ...
In them , as certain to be lov'd as seen , The Soul stood forth , nor kept a thought
within ; In me what spots ( for spots I have ) appear , 55 Will prove at least the
Medium must be clear . In this impartial glass , my Muse intends Fair to expose ...
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Shakespear . ] Shakespear and Ben , Johnson may traly be said not much to
have thought of this Immortality ; the one i'n many pieces composed in hafte for
the Stage ; the other in his latter works in general , which Dryden called his
Dotages .
Shakespear . ] Shakespear and Ben , Johnson may traly be said not much to
have thought of this Immortality ; the one i'n many pieces composed in hafte for
the Stage ; the other in his latter works in general , which Dryden called his
Dotages .
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Where are these spread woods which cloath'd heretofore Those bought lands ?
not built , not burnt within door . VER . 104. Șo Lutber etc. ] Our Poet , by
judiciously transposing this fine fimilitude , has given new lustre to his Author's
thought .
Where are these spread woods which cloath'd heretofore Those bought lands ?
not built , not burnt within door . VER . 104. Șo Lutber etc. ] Our Poet , by
judiciously transposing this fine fimilitude , has given new lustre to his Author's
thought .
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There sober thought pursu'd th'amusing theme , Till Fancy colour'd it , and form'd
a Dream . A Vision hermits can to Hell transport , 190 And forc'd ev'n me to see
the damn'd at Court . Not Dante dreaming all th'infernal state , Beheld such ...
There sober thought pursu'd th'amusing theme , Till Fancy colour'd it , and form'd
a Dream . A Vision hermits can to Hell transport , 190 And forc'd ev'n me to see
the damn'd at Court . Not Dante dreaming all th'infernal state , Beheld such ...
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Seite 49 - Hear this, and tremble! you, who 'scape the Laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave ^/ Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave.
Seite 27 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Seite 12 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Seite 14 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 4 - They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Seite 13 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 167 - Bright through the rubbish of some hundred years ; Command old words, that long have slept, to wake, Words that wise Bacon or...
Seite 6 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Seite 20 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence...
Seite 41 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.
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| Titel | The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes: pr. verbatim from the octavo ed. of mr. Warburton, Band 4 The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes: pr. verbatim from the octavo ed. of mr. Warburton, Alexander Pope |
| Autor/in | Alexander Pope |
| Veröffentlicht | 1754 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Sept. 2006 |
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